Reading

I have read some books and own many more. Below are some worth mentioning

Core Books (profoundly shaped who I was at the time that I read them)

  • Gödel, Escher, Bach
    Douglas Hofstadter
  • When Breath Becomes Air
    Paul Kalanithi
  • Poor Charlie's Almanack
    Charlie Munger
  • Getting to Yes
    Roger Fisher & William Ury

Great Books (worth reading even if not your genre of choice)

  • The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
    Douglas Adams
  • Stories of Your Life and Others
    Ted Chiang
  • Exhalation
    Ted Chiang
  • The Beginning of Infinity: Explanations That Transform the World
    David Deutsch
  • Structures: Or Why Things Don't Fall Down
    J.E. Gordon
  • Benjamin Franklin: An American Life
    Walter Isaacson
  • Einstein: His Life and Universe
    Walter Isaacson
  • The Innovators: How a Group of Hackers, Geniuses and Geeks Created the Digital Revolution
    Walter Isaacson
  • When We Cease to Understand the World
    Benjamín Labatut
  • Waking Up: A Guide to Spirituality Without Religion
    Sam Harris
  • Dune
    Frank Herbert
  • The Martian
    Andy Weir
  • Cosmos
    Carl Sagan
  • Nexus
    Ramez Naam
  • Sum: Forty Tales from the Afterlives
    David Eagleman
  • "Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!": Adventures of a Curious Character
    Richard Feynman
  • Gödel's Proof
    Ernest Nagel & James R. Newman
  • I Am a Strange Loop
    Douglas Hofstadter
  • Lord of the Flies
    William Golding
  • The Idea Factory: Bell Labs and the Great Age of American Innovation
    Jon Gertner
  • Brave New World
    Aldous Huxley
  • The Intelligent Investor
    Benjamin Graham
  • High Output Management
    Andrew S. Grove
  • Teach Yourself Physics: A Travel Companion
    Jakob Schwichtenberg
  • Too Big for a Single Mind: How the Greatest Generation of Physicists Uncovered the Quantum World
    Tobias Hürter
  • Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business
    Neil Postman
  • How to Change Your Mind: The New Science of Psychedelics
    Michael Pollan
  • Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future
    Peter Thiel
  • The Making of the Atomic Bomb
    Richard Rhodes

Good Books (worth reading if you are looking for something to read in that area)

  • Principles of Quantum Mechanics
    R. Shankar
  • Behave: The Biology of Humans at Our Best and Worst
    Robert Sapolsky
  • The Man from the Future: The Visionary Life of John von Neumann
    Ananyo Bhattacharya
  • The Case Against Reality: Why Evolution Hid the Truth from Our Eyes
    Donald Hoffman
  • Searching for Stars on an Island in Maine
    Alan Lightman
  • Just Mercy
    Bryan Stevenson
  • The Righteous Mind: Why Good People Are Divided by Politics and Religion
    Jonathan Haidt
  • The Founders: The Story of PayPal
    Jimmy Soni
  • Introduction to Quantum Mechanics
    David J. Griffiths
  • The Biggest Ideas in the Universe: Quanta and Fields
    Sean Carroll
  • Complexity: A Guided Tour
    Melanie Mitchell
  • The Future of Fusion Energy
    Jason Parisi & Justin Ball
  • On Intelligence
    Jeff Hawkins
  • The One World Schoolhouse
    Salman Khan
  • The War on Normal People
    Andrew Yang
  • Brain and Behavior: A Cognitive Neuroscience Perspective
    David Eagleman
  • Freakonomics
    Steven D. Levitt & Stephen J. Dubner
  • A Brief History of Time
    Stephen Hawking
  • Steve Jobs
    Walter Isaacson
  • Superintelligence: Paths, Dangers, Strategies
    Nick Bostrom
  • Tuesdays with Morrie
    Mitch Albom

Other Books (enjoyed enough to not put down half way)

  • Flash Boys: A Wall Street Revolt
    Michael Lewis
  • Seven Brief Lessons on Physics
    Carlo Rovelli
  • The Feeling of Life Itself: Why Consciousness Is Widespread but Can't Be Computed
    Christof Koch
  • Consciousness: Confessions of a Romantic Reductionist
    Christof Koch
  • Are Quanta Real? A Galilean Dialogue
    J.M. Jauch
  • The Pentagon's Brain: An Uncensored History of DARPA, America's Top-Secret Military Research Agency
    Annie Jacobsen
  • Naked Statistics: Stripping the Dread from the Data
    Charles Wheelan
  • I'll Be Gone in the Dark: One Woman's Obsessive Search for the Golden State Killer
    Michelle McNamara
  • In Cold Blood
    Truman Capote
  • Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies
    Jared Diamond
  • The Order of Time
    Carlo Rovelli